The Walmart case is making news again following a spate of 2009 panicky mainstream media recirculating the theme “Women gain as men lose jobs.” But what does it matter if women outnumber men in the workforce if Walmartization is the grim future?

Feminist sources continue to refocus on the real employment numbers. Working women today will have less of everything that matters–benefits, salary, job security, worksite autonomy–than the disappearing employed male. As a class, women still make less than 80 percent of men’s salaries, and wage inequities and employment rates are most significant for women of color (national unemployment rates for August: white women, 7.1 percent; Hispanic women, 11.6 percent; and black women, 13.2 percent).

Resistance is not futile. A class of women and other rabble-rousers can push back against a Walmart future. Check out the amazing work of the Union of Domestic Workers and the Bus Riders Union. Maybe labor justice is not found in the courts, but instead on shop floors, in kitchen-table politics and on the streets.

I have never thugoht about it like this. I concider myself a femenist but I've never participated in any activity to help feminism. Howver the way you put your views on feminisim makes me wonder if I've been thinking about feminism in the right way. Thank you for opening my mind Raven